Goyal announces pension scheme for unorganised sector workers

New Delhi (IANS) Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday announced the "Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Mandhan", a scheme to provide assured monthly pension of Rs 3,000 per month for workers in the unorganised sector.

While presenting…

IAF Mirage fighter crashes in Bengaluru

Bengaluru (IANS) A Mirage-2000 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed on Friday at the military airport runway in the city suburb during a training sortie, an official told IANS.

Details were awaited.

Average rate of inflation down to 4.6%: Goyal

New Delhi (IANS) Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said that the average rate of inflation has been brought down to 4.6 percent, which is the lowest for any Indian government since 1991.
 

2 Jaish militants killed in J&K

Srinagar (IANS) Two Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) militants were killed on Friday in a gunfight with security forces in a Jammu and Kashmir village in Pulwama district, police said.

The information was posted on Udhampur headquartered Northern Command's…

US envoy Stephen Biegun reveals N.Korea nuclear pledge

Washington (IANS) North Korea has pledged to destroy all its nuclear material enrichment facilities, the US special envoy has said.

Stephen Biegun said he planned to discuss "corresponding measures" the US can take in return…

Govt admits poor quality of smart phones supplied to social welfare dept, writes to Center to take action against supplier company

Ranchi: The state government today admitted that poor quality of smartphones have been supplied to the social welfare department
for which it has also apprised the Government of India and has also written to the supplier…

Budget Session: Govt to seriously look over the issue of increasing scholarship to SC/ST students

Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das today assured the house that the government will seriously look into the issue of increasing the scholarship being provided to the students belonging to the SC/ST…

Unemployment seen highest since 1972-73 is only draft, not final report: Niti Aayog

New Delhi (IANS) Reacting to media leakage of the National Sample Survey Office's periodic labour force survey (PLFS) showing India's unemployment rate at a 45-year high of 6.1 per cent in 2017-18, the Niti Aayog on Thursday described it as…

5 arrested for gang rape in Jharkhand

Ranchi (IANS) Five youths were arrested on Thursday for their involvement in a gang rape in Jharkhand, police said.

The youths abducted the victim in Bundu while she was visiting her friends in the town with her boyfriend, Deputy…

Unemployment allowance in Rajasthan from March

Jaipur (IANS) Jobless youths in Rajasthan will get unemployment allowance from March 1, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot announced on Thursday.

Inaugurating the Rajasthan University Students Union office, he said unemployed girls…